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The demonstrators protested Administrator Pruitt’s announcement to rollback the clean car standards, disappointed that the government is going the “Wrong Way on Clean Cars.”

Andrea McGimsey, Global Warming Program Director, issued the following statement in response:

“The stated mission of the EPA is to ensure that all Americans are protected from significant risks to human health and the environment where they live, learn and work.” By rolling back the clean car standards, the nation’s strongest policy against global warming, the EPA is directly violating the agency’s responsibility to all Americans.

“In January 2017, the EPA concluded that America’s clean car standards were working and achievable, and should not be weakened. But now, though the facts haven’t changed, the current administration is reversing that decision, ignoring thousands of pages of technical analysis that support keeping the standards in place.

“Earlier this week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration proposed lowering penalties for companies that fail to meet current standards. Now, not only is the administration trying to make it cheaper for polluters to violate the standards, but it is also weakening the standards themselves.

“It’s past time to clean up our transportation sector, the nation’s largest source of carbon pollution. We need to clean up our cars, not make a U-turn on the progress we can achieve.”